On Apr 1, 2016, at 07:28, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarva...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 1 April 2016 at 15:01, Sarven Capadisli <i...@csarven.ca> wrote: >> There is overwhelming research [1, 2, 3] and I think it is evident at this >> point that owl:sameAs is used inarticulately in the LOD cloud. >> >> The research that I've done makes me conclude that we need to do a massive >> sweep of the LOD cloud and adopt owl:sameSameButDifferent. >> >> I think the terminology is human-friendly enough that there will be minimal >> confusion down the line, but for the the pedants among us, we can define it >> along the lines of: >> >> >> The built-in OWL property owl:sameSameButDifferent links things to things. >> Such an owl:sameSameButDifferent statement indicates that two URI references >> actually refer to the same thing but may be different under some >> circumstances. > > What about > > owl : sometimesSameAs >
Given my background in Memento "Time Travel for the Web", I am delighted that the temporal aspect is finally brought up. Sameness frequently depends on temporal context. Hence, I think sometimesSameAs would be very valuable. In other cases, things are just always the same irrespective of time. I would propose adding sameAsItEverWas to deal with such situations. Herbert >> >> >> Thoughts? >> >> [1] https://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/papers/ws21 >> [2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/coreconcepts#terms_sameAs >> [3] http://schema.org/sameAs >> >> -Sarven >> http://csarven.ca/#i >
